Eye Candy Friday

Last Friday, on that lovely tour of Wheaton College with my friend Doreen and her son, I took this photo. On the left is Chase Round, one of the dining halls on campus. It’s going to be completely renovated and possibly torn down in a few months. After all the meals we had there, all of the bacon & cheese omelets and the tuna melts and the cheeseburgers and the large teas with lemon to go, I was glad to have one last lunch there before it is gone forever.

Your nostaliga for the dining hall made me tihink of my trip to Nebraska (with stupid younger sister :-). We decided to get off the Interstate and thoroughy enjoyed the small towns’ architecture. In Denver, the preservation movement came too late to save many iconic buildings. The worst example was a downtown complex designed by Mies van der Rohe which was replaced by an ugly Phillip Johnson monolith.